Example sentences of "look [prep] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now it looks as if not all of that will be called , but we ca n't be sure at this stage . |
| 2 | It looks as if roughly 130,000 East Germans have emigrated , illegally or legally , to the West this year . |
| 3 | Yeah it 's a I would guess that this er we you know , when they come down and the strips and they go back up again , it looks as if perhaps that 's what 's happened here because the the rope has sort of got this twist in it and one imagines that when they jump down it 's not quite er er right and so perhaps he 's on his way back up again . |
| 4 | It looks as if almost 50 per cent of the errors could be cured by a systematic consideration of prefixes and suffixes , of most common spelling of diphthongs , and by encouraging the habit of checking guesses , especially about diphthongs and digraphs like wh. ( see also Exceptions to the rule , page 16 . ) |
| 5 | Now it looks as if only the banking directive , adopted by the Council of Ministers in December 1989 , will be operative in time . |
| 6 | national account manager who 's specifically looks after and then go and see on a regular basis but call on them but invariably the accounts that those account managers deal with at erm will be split all round the country and will be controlled by our local sales executives in those areas |
| 7 | The LR 2.25 diesel is a very reliable unit if looked after and not abused and will last many miles . |
| 8 | Has it been looked after and well maintained ? |
| 9 | ‘ The car was very well looked after and meticulously maintained . |
| 10 | The only option , as far as the doctor was concerned , was to get him into the local hospital where he would be well looked after and out of sight for the time being . |
| 11 | It 's unlikely to be released but will be looked after until either its owner or a new home is found . |
| 12 | Although studies of land use like those outlined above provide useful overall data , they only produce a limited picture of what the countryside actually looks like and how it is changing in appearance , and this type of study remains at the heart , if not the mind , of many of even the most socioeconomic quantitative geographers . |
| 13 | Besides , I have the system installed and working there as well , so you will have first-hand invaluable knowledge of what it looks like and how efficient it is . |
| 14 | If the present , our present , has a place in the novel , it is as something that is looked to and not seen ; we do not exist . |
| 15 | If the mother 's face is unresponsive , then the mirror is a thing to be looked at but not looked into . ’ |
| 16 | The documents were retrieved and looked at but not cited because : |
| 17 | Now , there 's been lots of talk about gay and lesbian people not having no rights , I come from a Jewish society , I 've got people who suffer anti-semitic ri , feelings , there 's lot of erm multi-ra , ethnic majorities who cover on this programme , and I think that issue has to be looked at as well . |
| 18 | ‘ This is not simply a matter which can be looked at and comfortably quantified as a constant problem . |
| 19 | Was looked at and nervously fingered |
| 20 | Erm the cost of capital costs of of signing er will also be looked at and then a further report from the subcommittee to the council . |
| 21 | Accounts as a whole will now be looked at and how to extract the most useful information for assessing performance and financial position will be considered . |
| 22 | But I have to say that at that time I still did n't know , I had a good idea , that it was n't the man we were looking for but therefore he was still arrested and he was arrested on sus well for harbouring an escapee . |
| 23 | It made her howl with bitterness when she was alone in the weeks that followed , and it made her grit her teeth as she strode through the streets looking for revenge , or for her baby , or for Dorothy , not too sure what she was looking for but usually coming home with nothing better than a bag of old tins . |
| 24 | It should be said , nevertheless , that powerful search techniques , across such large databases , will still only contribute effectively to your essay-writing or research if you maintain a clear sense of what you are looking for and why — a guiding principle which is itself independent of the technology . |
| 25 | I had no idea what I was looking for and certainly no intention of starting on the filing cabinets . |
| 26 | It is so frustrating to consider a sample to be exactly what you are looking for and then need to set up the card again to discover just how you arrived at it , while labelling as you go is only the work of a moment . |
| 27 | The main point about a search is that we know what we are looking for and often we know where to look . |
| 28 | It is hardly surprising that he can not find the people he is looking for when even the largest organisations have so few senior women . |
| 29 | They know what they 're looking for if not who . |
| 30 | Er which also really does n't look as if actually asks you cross section . |